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...world talks in ominous terms about the new American empire. But the U.S. was far more of an empire in, say, 1949, when it sat behind its great wall of tank armies and nuclear bombers in static defense of large territories in Western Europe and the Pacific Rim. That empire we are in the process of dismantling. The Soviets are gone, and those places, having risen from the ashes, are quite capable of defending themselves. The threat from North Korea, for example, is no longer the spread of communism but of nuclear weapons. The response should be not a sitting...
...between the car chases and gunplay, Chan lays in plenty of the good-natured banter and macho high jinks that are standard issue in buddy-cop pictures from Hong Kong to Hollywood. At one point, Ekin Cheng banishes a junior officer to the inside of a huge fish tank, where the underling must count the number and variety of each fish?while wearing only underwear...
...ECOMOG troops in both Sierra Leone and Liberia. West African soldiers also used their time abroad to run businesses like illegal diamond trading. "They tend to strike fear into people's hearts," says Martin Rupiya, a senior researcher at the Institute for Security Studies, a South Africa-based think tank. "Whether that's a good thing or not depends on whose side they take." Liberians may be prepared to overlook such tactics as long as someone - anyone - turns up to help. In government-controlled Monrovia, civilians huddle against walls and run when they reach an exposed intersection. Food is running...
That conversation is likely to remain under scrutiny, and so may Joseph, a member of that little-seen Washington breed, the defense intellectual. As an academic at the National Defense University, the Pentagon's own think tank, Joseph penned hawkish monographs in obscure journals about national missile defense, one of his great passions. He served in the Reagan and first Bush administrations and under Reagan had the tongue-twisting title of Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear Forces and Arms Control Policy as a colleague of Richard Perle, a well-known hawk. Joseph's current post makes...
Jack and Joe both lose their jobs and their girlfriends. Rotten luck. Then their 401(k)s tank, and their dogs get run over. Argh. But while Jack spirals into despair, Joe takes his losses and eventually bounces back. How do you explain the difference? Depression may seem to be a matter of who's made of sterner stuff, but a new study shows that genes play an important role. Researchers have found that individuals with the short version of a particular gene involved in the production of a key brain chemical are more than twice as likely...